Skip to main content

Should I start Cooper Kupp or Emanuel Wilson in Week 7?

Updated Oct 21, 1:41 PM ET.

Start Cooper Kupp: 75 percent of the snaps and 16 percent of the targets over their last 3 games, against Emanuel Wilson's 48 percent of the snaps and 66 percent of the carries. No market projection is posted on either of them this week, so this is a usage call, and a lower confidence one than a call made on a projection. What follows is what each of them has done.

Should I drop Cooper Kupp for Emanuel Wilson?

Yes, on the rest of the season. Emanuel Wilson projects 127 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (12.7 a game over 10 games), Cooper Kupp 63 (6.3 a game over 10 games).

Parlae may earn a commission from price links.

Advertisement

Your next move

More fantasy football tools and rankings, all built from the same board.

Both players' season market-based projection, their usage this season and their last full season's numbers.

WR40 · SEA · bye 11

2026 vs anytime td line 1-5

Market-based projection
6.3 pts a game

RB39 · SEA · bye 11

2026 vs anytime td line 2-4

Market-based projection
12.8 pts a game Wk 6 price
Overall rank
112

Make this call for your own roster

Sync your league and My Team sets this week's lineup for your actual roster, spot by spot. Free, no account.

Sync my league

Or get it by email

Tuesday 8am ET: one email with what moved on the board and who is worth a claim.

Free. One a week, one tap to stop.

The gap

  • Board size309 draftable players

Draft data is not current for these two, so the figures that depend on it are left out. The call above comes from each player's usage.

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Cooper Kupp, and the board ranks him 111th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Emanuel Wilson, and the board ranks him 112th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

Cooper Kupp's market-based projection is 6.3 PPR points a game, built from 3 markets across 12 market sources. That is the 102nd highest figure of the 207 players with a market-based projection.

The market-based projection for Emanuel Wilson is 3.1 PPR points a game off 1 market across 12 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Emanuel Wilson's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 6

Through Week 6, Cooper Kupp has been on the field for 69 percent of SEA snaps, drawn 13 percent of the targets and had 4 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 8 of the offence's 52 third down targets, had 0 of its 17 chances inside the five and seen 8 of its 32 two minute targets.

His 25 targets have averaged 8.6 air yards.

In Week 4 against LAC he caught 1 of 2 targets for 13 yards and did not score.

In Week 5 against SF he caught 2 of 3 targets for 15 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against DEN he caught 5 of 10 targets for 50 yards and did not score.

Through Week 6, Emanuel Wilson has been on the field for 39 percent of SEA snaps, taken 54 percent of the carries, drawn 4 percent of the targets and had 29 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 0 of the offence's 52 third down targets, had 7 of its 17 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 32 two minute targets.

His 8 targets have come 2.4 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 4 against LAC he carried 21 times for 81 yards, caught 3 of 4 targets for 39 yards and scored 2 touchdowns.

In Week 5 against SF he carried 20 times for 61 yards, caught 2 of 2 targets for 11 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

In Week 6 against DEN he carried 14 times for 52 yards, caught 0 of 1 target for 0 yards and did not score.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Cooper Kupp played 16 games and scored 117.3 PPR points, 7.3 a game, finishing WR53.

He caught 47 of 70 targets for 593 yards and 2 touchdowns, with 12 red zone targets.

That came to 4.4 targets a game, a 67 percent catch rate and 12.6 yards a catch.

He was on the field for 76 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Emanuel Wilson played 17 games and scored 94.5 PPR points, 5.6 a game, finishing RB49.

He carried 125 times for 496 yards and 3 touchdowns, and caught 15 of 17 targets for 99 more yards.

That came to 7.4 carries a game at 4.0 yards a carry and 0.9 catches a game.

He was on the field for 30 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Emanuel Wilson was available for 1 game more.

Side by side

In 2025 Cooper Kupp scored 7.3 PPR points a game and Emanuel Wilson 5.6, 1.8 a game between them.

Cooper Kupp finished WR53 and Emanuel Wilson RB49, which are two different ladders.

Cooper Kupp is a wide receiver and Emanuel Wilson a running back, so the question is which slot you fill first rather than which of them is better.

Byes and availability

Both are off in Week 11, so a roster holding the pair has that one week to cover twice.

What would change the answer

Emanuel Wilson has only a partial projection, so the market half of this page is whole for only one of them.

Drop or keep

  • Should I drop Cooper Kupp for Emanuel Wilson?

    Yes, on the rest of the season. Emanuel Wilson projects 127 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (12.7 a game over 10 games), Cooper Kupp 63 (6.3 a game over 10 games).

  • Should I drop Emanuel Wilson for Cooper Kupp?

    No. Keep Emanuel Wilson: he projects 127 market-implied PPR points from Week 7 through Week 17 (12.7 a game over 10 games), Cooper Kupp 63 (6.3 a game over 10 games).

Both players in full

Week 7 on the board

Next duels